Boomer myopia

[Jim Gilbert]

Thanks, Monte--for years I've felt like the only supporter and believer (in
my immediate circle) of Vineland as a
Great Novel. And so many people to whom I've spoken view it as a "hippie
novel" when, my gawd, it's so much more than that. And I've believed it's
that thing there at the beginning, as Pynchon sets up Zoyd and his world of
the resonant, decaying 1960s as viewed via the broken mirror of the early
1980s. He does it *too* well, really--and a lot of folks just can't get past
it. Maybe it will take another generation, and some overdue scholarship, to
bring Vineland to the forefront, where it belongs. (I mean, it's not like
Updike--and that's including the Rabbit novels--has written anything that
hits the nail any more directly on the head.)
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